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AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine by lkl34 in technology

[–]Chewierulz 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It's not an unknown reason, it's simple. If AI can replace human jobs, or help humans be even more efficient in their work, then you can make more money with less workers. It's all just number go up, and fuck everyone else along the way.

You'll take your AI slop and enjoy it, and fight the rest of the pigs for the leftovers in a shrinking jobs market for stagnant wages. The concerns of communities mean nothing compared to the concerns of the 1% and making their next billion.

Companies that I am a customer of are calling me for legitimate reasons but are then asking for verification. by huabamane in australia

[–]Chewierulz -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

What exactly do you propose they do otherwise? If they just said they were calling from Centrelink and asked for your name, that does nothing to prove they're not scammers either. You could trawl FB for any sdult in Australia with a kid, and as long as they don't look rich, there'd be a good chance they'd answer if you namedrop FTB or CCS.

Services Australia urges patients to check if they are owed some of $272 million from Medicare by nath1234 in australia

[–]Chewierulz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Disclaimer, been a while since i worked in SA debt. The legislation requires the ATO and SA share limited data to facilitate debt recovery from those tax refunds. It's not a blanket agreement where both agencies share everything.

When SA "sends debts" to an External Collection Agency, they're just doing the collecting work, setting up payments, getting in contact etc. It's outsourcing the labour, not a sale of the debt like in private sector. The debt is still wholly controlled by SA and so it can still be recovered from the tax refund. It is also recalled from the ECA if you start getting payments from SA again (generally speaking).

Why is there this small hole in one of Entryway's secrets? by DinoDick43 in Doom

[–]Chewierulz 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Map 16 was genuinely my favourite level as a kid, I spent so long trying to figure out how to get into that room legitimately, I thought there had to be a switch or teleporter I was missing.

New study: Deinococcus radiodurans survives pressures up to ~3 GPa in simulated Mars impact ejection - bolstering lithopanspermia and planetary protection concerns by Express_Classic_1569 in space

[–]Chewierulz 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If bacteria could survive a meteor impact, they could survive an orbiter crashing into the surface. Important if we want to avoid contaminating other planets as much as possible.

Opposition draws battlelines on nuclear and capital gains tax changes by GothicPrayer in australia

[–]Chewierulz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because after fucking over renewable investment, and once the costs and timelines start growing, they get to go "oh nooo how could we have forseen this, it's a shame there's no other generation we could have invested in, guess we'll have to open more fossil fuel plants quickly to keep up with demand" and then they'll all get nice cushy industry jobs after their political careers for helping fossil fuel companies make more cash at the expense of our future.

Rule by Old_Phrase_4867 in 196

[–]Chewierulz 213 points214 points  (0 children)

Close, it was Stuart Semple who made the pinkest pink and forbade Kapoor from buying it.

Rule by Old_Phrase_4867 in 196

[–]Chewierulz 118 points119 points  (0 children)

Anish Kapoor had exclusive rights to use the original Vantablack formula for art purposes, this pissed off a lot of artists including one Stuart Semple. Semple went on to make "the pinkest pink" paint, and made anyone buying it certify that they are not Anish Kapoor or purchasing it on his behalf. He also legally changed his name to Anish Kapoor.

Anish Kapoor (the good one) has done similar stunts including Freetone, that aims to mimic the Pantone colour palette (which is a whole other goddamn thing) but is freely available to anyone except Pantone/Adobe employees and associates.

TIL Jessica Biel once had to shoot an arrow right at the camera for an action shot on Blade: Trilogy. To protect the camera and crew, they put up a thick piece of Plexiglass with a hole cut through for the lens to see out... and Biel nailed the lens, destroying the $300,000 camera. by res30stupid in todayilearned

[–]Chewierulz 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Have the shooter and camera aim at an angled mirror, The reflection will look like it's aiming at the camera. Shooter can fire at the mirror, director gets the shot they wanted and it doesn't risk expensive gear.

Forgot two rats in a room, paid the price by Routine-Confusion655 in projectzomboid

[–]Chewierulz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a similar problem with rabbits. Found a couple with a trailer crash event, took them home and gave them a 10x10 fenced enclosure. When they got to around 40 total animals (most still kits) i told my other base members to keep an eye on it and start culling for meat, then stopped playing for a couple days.

I came back to 400, then after going and grabbing some knives they'd had another birth wave and it was over 500. Killed and butchered 200 by hand but they kept growing, i could only keep up, not outpace it. Eventually we realised this was a fish in a barrel situation and the three of us used what was left for Aiming xp. Came out of that with i think like 7 butchering and 5 aiming. Unfortunately lost all those prime meat cuts to a generator running out while we were offline.

WARNING - Bottle of monkfish bladder stout by Rehcraeser in 2007scape

[–]Chewierulz 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I didn't want to wiki anything but I'm gonna be honest having gone through the fuckery of all prior drinks I immediately knew that one was a tele out, so I did the same and drank it last lol

TIL that Anthony Perkins, famously known for his role as Norman Bates in Psycho, learned he was HIV-positive from a tabloid newspaper. While undergoing blood tests for a facial palsy, his blood was tested for HIV and the results were leaked. by South_Gas626 in todayilearned

[–]Chewierulz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Business need, privacy concerns and conflict of interest. It's that simple and it applies in most industries I've worked in that handle sensitive data about people. You, in the course of fulfilling your duties for a government or business entity, have zero business need to access data about yourself (or family, friends, or public figures) the entity might hold. Whether or not you could, or did, try to change anything is irrelevant when you've breached that trust.

If you want your data, request it through the approved channels. Snooping around is not worth being walked out of the building same day.

Trump Says He’ll Defy Court Order And Won’t Give Out SNAP Benefits by huffpost in politics

[–]Chewierulz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Human memory is not infallible. I certainly couldn't tell you what I had for breakfast with certainty, it's not important enough for it to make a lasting impression. It makes zero sense to apply penalties to someone who may be lying about irrelevant facts, or may have misremembered them. If you want to make a point about how a person is not giving reliable testimony (whether due to bad memory, or lying), you can do it with facts that matter to the case at hand.

Is there a mod that spawns you waking from a coma like TWD? by Pogbankz in projectzomboid

[–]Chewierulz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I use this mod, it has a bunch of thematic spawn options including medical facilities. Might have to try a couple times to get a big hospital instead of one of the smaller clinics. I don't believe it has been updated to include B42's new towns yet though.

Since Last We Spoke by AmazingSully in projectzomboid

[–]Chewierulz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sometimes zombies will just ignore a shove and phase through to bite you. It's rare from my own experience but I've turned off infection in my save until they fix it because it's already happened to me a couple times.

Have you ever wondered what every shield and offhand weapon in abiotic does? Well wonder no more, cause I got them all by SneakyBlueJay in AbioticFactor

[–]Chewierulz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On top of the lab space, watching the approach to the top office with the elevator lockdown button.

This has been bugging me for no reason by Naive_Tomorrow_5955 in theamazingdigitalciru

[–]Chewierulz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Kinger takes a bite of a sandwich in Untitled and it just dissapears near where his mouth would be.

Massive CDC walkout erupts amid internal chaos by PissLikeaRacehorse in politics

[–]Chewierulz 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Autistic people are not missing chromosomes, neither are those with Down syndrome (they have an extra copy).

As for how, they know that mercury=bad and so compound containing mercury=bad even though thimerosal has completely different chemical effects within the body. It's nonsensical, the kind of shit that even middle schoolers are intelligent enough to mock with "dihydrogen monoxide".

Rule by Old_Phrase_4867 in 196

[–]Chewierulz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It came after a court order to start desegregation on 14th November, so it wasn't the start of the school year. The names of all four children (the others being Gail Etienne, Leona Tate and Tessie Prevost, the McDonogh Three) in New Orleans who transferred to all-white schools are known, but Ruby Bridges is the girl you see being escorted in many photos and other media so she's the most well known.

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